"I recruited Chris from the 7th grade," Bill Frieder recalled on the phone from Phoenix, shortly after the 35-year-old Webber announced his retirement from basketball Wednesday at a Golden State Warriors news conference. "I was the only ...

By BOB WOLFLEY The retirement of Bob Knight from college basketball after 42 seasons reminds us that he's one of the biggest could-have-beens in the history of University of Wisconsin athletics ... But he was a hot prospect, or as one report at ...

By Dave Mackall PHOENIX -- According to Sean Miller, there's only one Bob Huggins, even though people were trying to compare the two college basketball coaches on the eve of their teams' NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 clash tonight at US Airways Center ...

18--The mystery engulfing the demise of the annual women's basketball series between Tennessee and Connecticut has yet to be revealed, with each side indicating that the other needs to be the one to tell the story ... "We knew there would be ...

But the Toreros' 69-62 upset of the Zags on Monday night in the finals of the West Coast Conference men's basketball tournament at the Jenny Craig Pavilion had nothing to do with strategy or game plan ... 3-seeded Toreros dumped top-seeded Gonzaga ...

A somber Villanova locker room was a foregone conclusion early in Kansas University's 72-57 basketball victory over the Wildcats on Friday. Kansas cruised and advanced to the Midwest Regional final of the NCAA Tournament, while Villanova finished ...

New York, NY (Sports Network) - North Carolina is once again the top team in men's college basketball, according to the latest Associated Press poll, but Dayton's stunning rout of previously-unbeaten Pittsburgh on Saturday vaulted the ...

"I recruited Chris from the 7th grade," Bill Frieder recalled on the phone from Phoenix, shortly after the 35-year-old Webber announced his retirement from basketball Wednesday at a Golden State Warriors news conference. "I was the only ...

By LORI NICKEL It's tough to analyze the 2008 women's college basketball NCAA tournament bracket for the first time and not do a double take when eyeing the top-seeded team overall -- Connecticut -- and then immediately scrolling down the ...

"Today I knew I had to be under control and play Wisconsin basketball, get my teammates involved before I started forcing anything," he said ... It was our inability to guard the ...

Above all, Webber said, he will stay involved in basketball, listing Mullin and Joe Dumars, the Pistons' president of basketball operations, as potential role models ... "I would like to stay in ...

"The season's over, the games are over, but a lot of things that have to occur with Indiana basketball, or a lot of things are going to occur with Indiana basketball that need to occur here in the springtime," Dakich said ... " ...

15--Remember all those basketball lectures through the years about how success is tied to strong play at the start of each period? Nebraska got three chances to test that theory Saturday, and excelled each time in an 88-79 overtime upset of No ... ...

Sports Q For Ya Sports Q For Ya Sports Q For Ya Sports Q For Ya A question came up at work and the sports experts did not know the answer, not for sure, even those who, well, you know the type, they seem to know it all, or think they do  ... ...

24--As hard a time as the Lakers had closing out a game yesterday against the directionless, superstar-starved, strategically challenged Knicks, there is something else far more annoying that they can't seem to close ... They are among the ...